Why Is Ted Cruz Losing?

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... why is present Obama insufficiently vetted by the media the first time he ran for president ... and why is the international community so willing to come down what's going on in Syria but not do anything about it ... welcome to Opinion Journal Live ... on Jason Riley and my first guest today is editorial board member Matt Kaminski ... here to talk about the situation in Syria welcome that could be ... judging by ... this weekend's events things seem to be worsening ... if anything in the region as I'll what's the latest ... clothing has ... been ... a terrible ... massacre on the weekend those discovered in a ... series of of villages in in in Quillen about over a hundred dead ... most of them were killed by ... pro government militias that went toward or ... um ... you know that in an stickler number think if he doesn't have to forty were children under the age of ten ... it is or not is clearly innocence in the non people engage in conflict ... on the UN and has been going on for all three yet what is the tally important that we know you know it some but the team ... did Deathly over seven thousand Analysts say some some as high as ten thousand ... on the lino illegal by the way on human rights groups ... are able to tally up on you know in this is basically an indictment ... of our inaction in Syria and Sudan Ben and ... I were you say how are we ... but what the US the National candy and receive the UN is the Obama administration has put most of its chips on the Security Council ... the problem because of China and Russia veto to resolutions on this ... didn't come to current sleepover an unplanned ... pushes past the spring Jacko in on as the boys to that end as attorney general of the un ... cool um to spread outside where ... they would put in place unarmed UN monitors some kind of ... blue helmets without any weapons ... if you will ... to to to monitor the um ... you know a ... withdrawl of of of the army and a ... cease fire it's been a ... failure ... and even be admitted that mean the US ... has said that was skeptical that this would actually work in that he actually did supportive ... because were not willing to do anything else ... do you see parallels between ... what's going on in Syria today and what President Clinton days preparing the Balkans that the nineteen nineties ... I do in their share was only the Balkans then and it was a ... you know it pushed ... her walker pushed into real action in Bosnia either imprisoned Clinton came into town to be different ... for two-and-a-half years he did nothing to do and ... this was striking but what happened over the weekend surprise that the result of the ball Balkans where ... you kind of peacekeeping missions ... before noon Eastern Creek on acronyms ... there were aam ... deployed in ... in in Boston and are looking on as ... awful things happened and was awfully happened whichever nice and worth ... a thousand people killed and then ... this will East and mobilize Clinton to do something ... and it is we the US that has to do something in that case we bombed buzz answer positions forced into negotiating table and the decline led troops to ... modern piece ... to associate your years actually arguing them for free using methods outside the chair of the UN to act ... in Syria I mean what is the only feeling basically is that we have ... to live in Russia which is a serious Russia's main clients to ensure a world cricket in Russia a veto over anything into ... is also very ... openly ruled out this will go into ... the world bomb ... is too risky and that she has had the fence is what he commands in Corinth is then also you know with with classes and military anyone arming the rebels ... to mostly telling aam Pasha side ... go ahead do what you do you make an economic price for this ... but ... we will lease of the ... stock you will ... well I know you spoke with UN ... Susan Rice the US ambassador to United Nations aam ... you with some of the members of the media a little while back with those the objections that she raised to the last ... acting and and Syria ... is precisely ... so that it was really to talk about anything more ... beyond the economic pressure ... which is not in ... insubstantial and can be felt in the weeks ... and even when you're talking to the opposition ... pushes explicitly me to get this from the one that she said that ... the other party probably won't work but it's the best team in town ... and we use to any talk about anything that would involve military regime in Iran and the beast motivational of ... Commons in general you ... shoot the administration is ... they don't ... want to touch this a campaign year because they think that the ... public can't be sold in any sort of military intervention ... when questioned the B O or like Afghanistan Iraq in the previous it ... up and hopefully that their map thank you for joining us thank you crescendo ... of my next guest is Michael Myers of the New York Sobel writes Polish and talk about some the reaction ... in the black community to the end of lease the keys race announcement ... that it supports gay marriage ... vocalist minus ... twelve months including a big deal ... okay um ... so ... the onthe way CP announced its support of gay marriage aam ... within a week or so of present Obama has announced that ... ah yes the organization claims that I mean ... the scare quotes and steam but a ... home body ... I mean going as dishonest in ... its related rulings ... is dishonest an offence that ... we know all the Julian Vaughn determine the immediate past chairman has featured merit to stamp ... out into the double storey TV prior to the board decision ... that Pres Obama gave them permission to speak about ... the single sex ... or same sex marriage ... the way that they never have gone will fall ... so I mean you haven't ... confession an admission from determine America's debt ... the issue is coming for the board ... only because for the Opel Palm was action with decision ... gave them permission to talk about ... number two it says Congress and found that ... when they did to them and when they made a decision ... reduced or that ... the uneasy peace constitution violets ... been his calling ... we use the lip service to suggest ... that anything he was all within the business of ensuring a political economic social educational advancement of all people one does not want to feel encouraged by love and grace ... and in this interesting some members of group are taking exception ... to ... the leadership doing that the Amsterdam News a black newspaper ... here in New York had an article on was over the weekend I believe recording a minister who sat on ... the animal ACP has abandoned its historic responsibility to speak for ... and safeguard the Sobel writes movement wheat to March with Reverend King did not March one inch or one mile to promote ... same sex marriage that ... sort of gives you an idea how awesome the rank-and-file feel about this decision went down but there is that the West honest I feel view that is all a very long cause of ignoring the rank-and-file ... ignore the right to fall one will be the camp of respect for the upper ... hand in it also is yet to happen all ... that to rank-and-file can protests but in the flick of what the decision ... to go from there as a decision ... that was it was partly on costs and ... more with with contemptuous of the membership was content of the damage to the core of ... the membership based organization that would be board representation for consultation ... and the annual conventions coming up in July ... I have plenty of time to make the appropriate symbol decision ... by consultant among which it did not do that ... do you think this fits a pattern of the end of Lake CP time in recent decades being more interested in advancing ... the causes of Democrats ... concern advancing the cause is necessarily a black Americans ... I read on the news that he is ... have decided on ... all in all the Democratic Party ... and the labor unions in this country ... have caught the Suns owner the right to park his leadership sought the leadership of today I can name a few issues and that's really been the case on on issues like education for example their opposition ... to many forms of school choice to fight despite the fact that the poll after poll shows that ... low income black supported overwhelmingly you mention the labor unions and that's directly ... related to their aam of support from the noise was eating and the body shell the army and I'll welcome one it is the isthe second home of the secret service comedown detective Brock Obama the first African American friends the back of the sea ... but I also find interesting ... and I think speaks to what you're saying is that ... it's those members of the Enderle ACP those active members the older ... church going and not members of the group that are most opposed ... to gay marriage it makes you wonder why all they would risk Oster sizing ... down the most important segment of the black community is ... there is really on a black eye the end I was going on today but there is no risk in the close ... based on past battles ... with the leadership of the means to be ... we were to confound built on the convention is a cosmetic convention they'll have a policy making on foreign ... policy making on Friday adding to the ... rest with ... the sixty four members of the mobile ... radio we went to the local option ... it annoys the brand's second disagree that though added that the officer may disagree ... if you disagree ... you cannot speak for the NAACP ... is antithetical to the station has made it very clear that we Japan's going direction ... because sometimes the dollar would ... get only dissent they can have it he resigned or ought ... to try and owls on the board members to represent them ... and that's very difficult ... to lose nation with ... a personality cult Lilly will now ... not policy and the principal ... rival Apple even turn right turn to for thank you very much for joining us take it ... I wanna take a quick commercial break only right that ... opinion Journal Live on Jason Riley in my next guest is the still the Web columnist James trot oh ... to discuss the conservative media outlet PRI Park dot com in the series has been running ... on present Obama welcome to ... our debater ... so James what your impression of what ... a bright part calm has been up to since the death of its that its founder Andrew peripheral ensure twelve last article that auditor bright part wrote ran a couple days after his death it was the first part of a series called The vetting this is Friday ... as they explained it ... by ... Andrew wanted to do with the mainstream media would not first and foremost into pledged to bet President Brock beat Obama he wanted to show that the media failed in its most basic duty ... to uncover the truth and hold those in power accountable regardless of party ... so they've actually been doing on a good deal of our shoe leather investigative journalism being up facts about Brock a bomb is back ... they got in my view one intriguing school was was the nineteen ninety one ... a literary agency representing Obama ... I had a brochure advertising him as ... having been born in Kenya which pleases you know you wonder where that came from was interesting ... we know that he was that we should say but was he advertise himself as the one in Canada make themselves look more exotic were this idea come from ... other than that though it's been on a diet so it or not talking about hidden camera staying in the types of things ... that may now the website famous this is ... this is ... you know some approximation of a massive internal it's yet it's in an interview in people going through archives going through official documents insightful twenty make of the premise behind ... the batting is that as they column I mean this is the ... assumption here that ... of present Obama was not ... properly vetted or sufficiently that in the first go around ... and if he had ... might not have been elected and so that's what we're going to do before he gets a chance to really I think ... there are two parts the assumption one party is the media were basically he and Obama score Chuck and I think that there's a lot of truth to that I mean you remember the one thing the one major thing that did come out during the Rockaway campaign was turn my rights ... but ... this was the sin bin not talk about online for months to forty BC finally broke the story ... he was screwed a lot of journalists from covering wanted and when Obama gave a speech in of the speech on race ... by the general reception by the media was okay well he's dealt with that now ... so I think that that's true ... by now ... that what's really interesting to me that was you look it most of what they found is rather trivial for example my favorite is site ... they found a picture of Obama in our colonial regalia with the Gadsden flag behind and that's the flag with the State Duma don't have any audio background ... are from an independence day celebration ... he and I in nineteen eighty seven ... and say well with all the criticism of the tea party ... auditors ... look Brock Obama was a key partner ... in and ... what is this show us a lot of watches is that he's willing to engage him ... are either kind celebrations so does all quarters is what I that that that makes him look good for the first part ... of the frustration with the with the mainstream media being Obama scamper you know you look at the voting habits of the most journalists ticker the Washington press corps ... and that was clearly clearly that the case ... but my problem all of that it's not ... that it's it's you know Obama in a transformational figure shares by Treasury really got caught up in my heart but let's not let ... I guess one column I have the second part of this though is this argument that ... that the left likes to use against conservative which is the miserable either way and deceive their win office ... taking advantage of gullible voters in if only they knew the real truth ... or had the intelligence that we love having never would put these ... these office in the first place ... and I feel like you're getting a lot of that of that from the right now if only the American people really knew ... what Obama was really like because the media was really doing their jobs they would never want to ... and I think that's a little condescending ... well I ... I tend to doubt that I mean remember that he was running as China can ... buy ... there were going was good reason to doubt Obama but ... when the eyes of financial panic at ... that and that ... the Obama looks cool and I mean I type I certainly understand why people elected Obama rather than it answered I don't I don't buy that are new but I find most fascinating about this though is ... the one bright part that comes up with is mostly kind of trivial stuff ... when you look at what ... the mainstream media come up with Mitt Romney ... and Romney likes to ride horses twenty four hundred around is written in your son's ... death the not ... Romney days too so my militias forced to cut school fifty six hundred words in Washington close to forty seven years in a lot ... you know I think actually what bright part dot com is doing to Obama is exactly what the mainstream media are going to want ... to Why Romney so bright part will end up looking like the mainstream media with ... a look at it ... can ... be cured and frankly there were to take on more commercial break over ... welcome back to Opinion Journal Live on Jason Riley in joining me next is Daniel helper ... of the Weekly standard to talk about a rather unfortunate incident ... over the weekend involving an MSNBC cable news host ... a welcome Mr helper ... a teacher at me ... so why are we playing a clip from the MSNBC host Chris hazing gate get your reaction ... OK Creek ... he is acting very difficult to talk about ... the war dead in the fall and ... without invoking Valor but why do I feel so come to about four zero I feel control and come from overwork euro because it seems to me ... that it is so ... rhetorically approximate two justifications for more war ... one cup or bowl using the word hero that's how law Mr. it celebrates Memorial day weekend the twenty make of this ... it's it's really unfortunate it's ... pretty piercing for him so he actually ... suggested actually believes that so ... it did ... I think ... if she was willing to sacrifice himself ... the church leaders agree are sacrificing redirect your wisdom ... you know analysts believe we can disagree with that formulation is if you think that ... what he is sacrificing ... himself for ... such as in this case the country ... in what you are somehow think that that's not worth the cost to lose one's life or something it's really unfortunate and pretty embarrassing episode ... for MSNBC this when I think he gave some thought to this I don't think Dom he was shooting from the hair care less you go around using phrases like ... rhetorically proximate all the time and everyday power station ... exactly and these usually when she shyness are making new ones point that will not all necessarily heroes but you know I mean they're several elements to other stupid stupid part of the ... top of the Commons is the last or when you sing well we'll use it to really justify going to war ... which is for party um well he did apologize we should know that what you make of the apology and give us the gist of what he said we only had about forty seconds left but said ... the apology was was a typical I'm sorry if I offended anybody and I think she means a certainty offended anybody can do is employ years ... to get a real apology can say I'm wrong ... these people are actually sacrificing for for me to have my own rights to do my own show ... and you know I'm uncomfortable with it with them for doing that he didn't ... he backtracked ... which is fine just for our good if you recently started Tiffany but yes while and will happily that I think that the best thing we can say about this is that the combination will allow them the right seem to be ... pretty slim so it doesn't seem to be a lot of talent out there for of ... for saying these sorts of things for present Obama isn't Vietnam ... War Memorial address yesterday said that they're all true Europe so ... at twenty c to everybody ... can agree ... thank you for joining us we appreciate it ... a few ... and that's all for ... today's opinion Journal I've oh please join us tomorrow in every week at five p m Eastern ... on Jason Riley ...